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Dorian J. Cougias is the founder and Lead Analyst of Network Frontiers, a company that focuses on regulatory compliance, metrics, systems continuity, and governance.
Over the last sixteen years, Dorian has overseen the establishment, sale, and re-launch of Network Frontiers, has served as CIO of two of the leading ad agencies in the world, and has served as CEO of an international software company. He has written and spoken extensively on all matters of information technology, is a leading expert witness, and has won numerous writing and speaking awards.
Dorian serves as an adviser or working group member to the Payment Card Industry Council, Financial Technology Forum, the National Association of Convenience Stores, and other industry organizations. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Technology, lecturing and serving on the board of advisors for the University of Delaware; College of Human Services, Education, and Public Policy.
Dorian has authored hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including the award-winning Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center, and most recently the Unified Compliance Series.
As the primary architect of the Unified Compliance Framework, Dorian and his research partner, Marcelo Halpern of the international law firm Latham and Watkins, have created the first independent initiative to exclusively support IT compliance management. By focusing on commonalities across regulations, standards-based development, and simplified architectures, the UCF supports a strategic approach to IT compliance that reduces cost, limits liability, and leverages the value of compliance-related technologies and services across the enterprise.
Dorian and his team continue to work extensively with application and hardware developers such as Archer, McAfee, CA, Compliance Spectrum, NEMEA, NetIQ, PolicyTech, TruArx, Lumension, and ControlScan.